The informant line on both — the person who provided the information and attested to it — has my husband’s signature.

And there is a death certificate, filed on the eighth of March 2021, for Linus Thomas Renfrew, age three days, cause of death listed as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy due to placental abruption.

The informant on that one is also Davis Renfrew.

Three documents recording the existence and the end of my children, and my handwriting is not on any of them, and by the time I ever saw one of them my son had been dead for five months.

Part Thirteen: The Fourth of October